Talk:Milk fever

milk fever
treament : calcium glocanate iv or sc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.125.143.76 (talk) 13:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

oral route treatments ?
As far as I know, oral route has been used in prevention, not as treatment. The urgency of the case does not suit with slow blood income by oral route. More over, oral treatment in hypocalcaemia cow can lead to injestion penumonia.

Lucyin (talk) 16:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I think most people would use the two together - the oral drenches can be used as a sustained release of calcium whilst the body's metabolism gets going, but only after you've given your i/v calcium. This calcium is usually given with magnesium and phosphorous i/v also. Brionyvet (talk) 22:19, 9 September 2010 (UTC) just give straight glucose —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.82.159.129 (talk) 06:27, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Readin up in the Merck Manual, it agrees that oral administration of calcium is a treatment option PeachSauce (talk) 05:35, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Self-auscultation?
Can someone elaborate on the "self-auscultation" position of the head? What causes it? Why is it called that? Self-auscultation typically refers to "listening to one's own body sounds." Is this what the cow is doing?...or is the movement an involuntary muscular reaction? I attempted to find some info on my own but I can't find anything to back up this information outside of Wikipedia mirrors. Thanks. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 02:36, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Clinical vs Subclinical.
I think we could improve this article by dividing it up into clinical and subclinical sections. The cause/mechanism is the same, however the clinical symptoms discussed on the page currently all pertain to clinical milk fever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeachSauce (talk • contribs) 05:40, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Prevention
((Just some notes on how to improve this section :) ))

-Talk about feeding low Ca close-up diets

-Talk about feeding low DCAD close-up diets and how it causes a mild metabolic acidosis. Decreased pH causes an increased affinity of the PTHR to PTH and improves ca mobilization. - The mild metabolic acidosis makes the cow "feel funny" and tends to slightly decrease DMIPeachSauce (talk) 05:45, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Needs to be broadened
This also affects, e.g., pedigreed housecat dams with too many kittens to feed, so presumably is can affect all livestock, even all mammal species, under conditions of insufficient calcium for milk and colostrum output. I would think it's at least documented prett well with regard to dairy goats. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:38, 13 July 2018 (UTC)